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Troy Balderson of Ohio is running for Congress against a Nancy Pelosi Liberal who is WEAK on Crime & Borders. Troy is the total opposite, and loves our Military, Vets & 2nd Amendment. EARLY VOTING just started with Election Day on August 7th. Troy has my Full & Total Endorsement!

Hi. I am about to jump into the pool with my daughter but I just read this madness piece and it is quite very good so I suggest y’all encroach the nood! but I am just rambling on here because no band was as good as led zepplin RAmBLE ON! Sing my song the graphic might be enhanced if the arrows split and then swarm from all dirs I gotta woman was possibly my favorite however if u care to try bron-yr-aur it is and has been my favorite like a swarm can worry about court later tune to listen and attempt to play. It required an odd tuning for normal humans – gagad or something idk. Promise it’s a good song

Thank you. I thought it was just me, and as a veteran of 5 Led Zep concerts and 2 other Jimmy Page appearances (Yardbirds), I was trying to find a way to relate philosophically to this post, which MUST somehow mix two of the favorite pastimes of my life (70s Zep and 21st century politics.) But now that I see it is just…..whatever it is….I will stop my attempt and go back to reading and learning as usual from the commentary on this page.

Wow. These #JamesGunn tweets are just horrible. Child rape is no laughing matter. As Texas SG, I handled far too many child sexual assaults. Truly evil. I’m glad Disney fired him, but if these tweets are true, he needs to be prosecuted. pic.twitter.com/1IgHC18J4x

A good indication of the increasing depravity that engulfs us is the attempt by pedophiles to shed the pejorative moniker in favor of MAP, Minor Attracted Person. Such an abomination being introduced into the language as though it is an acceptable expression would have been unthinkable not long ago.

Do we remember when we found out that AG Lynch was threatening the NYPD with possible actions concerning the Eric Garner fiasco??
Well, perhaps the following is a result of those threats. And it is from CNN of all places:
“…Tuesday, the US Justice Department released a statement saying it informed the NYPD in the spring that the department was to pursue disciplinary proceedings. City officials have denied the claim.
De Blasio, who said he was surprised by Tuesday’s statement, asked NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill to speak directly to top DOJ officials.
“We wanted to hear it from a ranking official of DOJ,” de Blasio said. “That was done in the last 24 hours. It was specifically confirmed. That makes it abundantly clear to all of us. It’s time to move forward.”…”

Those innocuous surface FISA dates being redacted (no reason to redact dates on documents being released) really kicks up my suspicion there is more than one version of the *original* application… [And I am not alone.] pic.twitter.com/tGCBubszBP

As a young boy, I wrote to many of the astronauts and, in return, received many really nice packages including autographs, photos and PR packs.
My father was a member of the Long Island Astronomers Association, astronomy was his passion and he had some really nice telescopes that he would set up in the back yard (they were large enough that he needed motorized bases to orient them). He would invite neighborhood children to scan the heavens through them. Some of the other members had observatories that they would also share with interested kids, I remember visiting some of them and thought they were really cool.
My father passed away on July 6th of 1969 at the young age of 49.
I felt that he was cheated for not being unable to experience the Apollo 11 Project, sending the first man to the moon…he would have been so thrilled!
I guess The Lord had other plans for him.

You dad sounds like a very interesting man. I love that he invited the other children in the neighborhood to view – real community! He passed away so young, too young! My sympathies on your loss young in life

Finner said investigators didn’t know if the shooting was targeted, random or caused by road rage. He said a few people witnessed the shooting and video may become available.

In an updated description, the suspect is said to be a white or Hispanic male, about 30 years old, wearing a tan baseball cap, gray warmup jacket, khaki shorts and riding a light-colored mountain bike bicycle.

(Yes I’m sure it was random or caused by road rage… rolls eyes. The description made me laugh. )

He didn't tweet this because he believes it.He tweeted this because he knows the useful idiots will believe him without question and spread it around to reinforce their delusion.These people are disgusting.#WalkAwayhttps://t.co/OqEsZ8Y48r

Something I suspected WE ALWAYS knew..
VSGPOTUS WON the *Popular Vote* also..
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Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast illegal votes
A research group in New Jersey has taken a fresh look at postelection polling data and concluded that the number of noncitizens voting illegally in U.S. elections is likely far greater than previous estimates.
As many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election, which put Barack Obama in the White House.

The research organization Just Facts, a widely cited, independent think tank led by self-described conservatives and libertarians, revealed its number-crunching in a report on national immigration.

The issue of voter fraud was one of the most heated sources of controversy during the 2016 presidential election, and it continues to be so.
After Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced that it was supporting recounts in several states won by Donald Trump, Trump responded with a series of Twitter posts accusing Clinton of hypocrisy for refusing to accept the results of the election after she insisted that he “must.” He then tweeted, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

If Sessions is ‘scared’, as Bannon claims, the President should start an intermittent series of tweets.

A few weeks later, he should call Sessions in and say, ‘Jeff, word has it that you are too scared to perform your duties as AG. In order for you and your family to feel safe again, your time as AG is now over. Go back home, enjoy your family, especially the grandkids, and have a nice life.’